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  • Automated Data Acquisition: Data Collection and Integration for the Alberta Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance Net (ARTSSN)

    Content Type: Abstract

    The ability to provide real time syndromic surveillance throughout the Capital Health Region is currently undeveloped. There are limited mechanisms for routine real time surveillance of disease or conditions of public health… read more
    … selected protocols • Emergency Departments visits chief com- plaints, discharge diagnosis and relevant la- boratory … users. METRIC: Presently, the ARTSSN repository con- tains (growing daily) approximately: • 700,000 …
  • What Is the True Shape of a Disease Cluster? The Multi-Objective Genetic Scan

    Content Type: Abstract

    Irregularly shaped spatial disease clusters occur commonly in epidemiological studies, but their geographic delineation is poorly defined. Most current spatial scan software usually displays only one of the many possible cluster solutions with… read more
    … de- grees of penalization parameters imposed to the free- dom of shape [1]. Even when a fairly complete set of … algo- rithm with varying degrees of penalization, the com- plete set of solutions is found in parallel, through a …
  • Full Automatic Syndromic Surveillance System Using Prescription in Japan

    Content Type: Abstract

    I Medical services for outpatients are well developed due to universal public health insurance. Even patients who have mild symptoms can visit a clinic freely in Japan. Thus the monitoring of outpatients provides very timely information to detect… read more
    … Institute of Infectious Diseases, 2) EM SYSTEMS Co.Ltd OBJECTIVE So that full automatic syndromic … Disease and EM SYSTEMS Co.Ltd. which is the leading com- pany of the systems for pharmacies and, especially, …
  • Georgia's Choice: Moving One Health Forward

    Content Type: Case Study

    Anthrax is endemic and enzootic in Georgia with cases being registered since 1881 with over 2000 foci identified. Since 2005, 439 laboratory confirmed and 211 probable human cases and 190 laboratory confirmed animal cases have been registered. A… read more
    … Agriculture (LMA) COUNTRY: Georgia Email: irinekal7@yahoo.com, tsira.napetvaridze@gmail.com, makakokhreidze@yahoo.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? _x__ Human health ___x …
  • Event Communication in a Regional Disease Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Versatile, user-friendly visualization tools are required to organize the wealth of information available to users of large, regional surveillance systems into a coherent view of population health status. Communications … read more
    … in the fu- ture. The functionality of this communication com- ponent must balance the utility of immediate situ- … can view the communications logs to better understand and com- pare which detection alarms were met with concern …
  • Partnering for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: the Georgia Syndromic Surveillance Program and the Georgia Power Company

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Georgia Power Corporation (GPC) provides power to 155 (97.5%) of the 159 counties in Georgia (GA), and employs 9,600 people throughout the state. GPC is engaged in preparing for pandemic influenza, and committed to protecting… read more
    … a large corporation with a statewide employee base to con- duct absentee and reason for absence SS to provide an … for organizing pandemic planning committees comprised of com- munity partners to discuss continuity of basic ser- …
  • Benchmarking Temporal Surveillance Techniques

    Content Type: Abstract

    Benchmarking of temporal surveillance techniques is a critical step in the development of an effective syndromic surveillance system. Unfortunately, holding “bakeoffs” to blindly compare approaches is a difficult and often fruitless enterprise, in… read more
    … we dem- onstrate an approach for this process based on a com- mon analytical development and benchmarking with common … [1] Reis BY, Pagano M, Mandl KD, Using temporal con- text to improve surveillance, PNAS. 2003;100(4):1961- …
  • Framework for the Development of Response Protocols for Public Health Syndromic Surveillance Systems

    Content Type: Abstract

    Although syndromic surveillance cannot serve its intended purpose without the timely public health response launched after aberration detection, the literature is very limited with respect to response to syndromic surveillance… read more
    … based on ex- perience with a single system, ESSENCE, and con- cluded that careful development of an evaluation and … experi- ences with multiple systems, it can be used as a com- mon resource for public health practitioners develop- …